[FRC Blog] FIRST Choice Round 1: Slight Delay & a Tweak

[Bkeeneykid]

Posted on the FRC Blog, 12/08/16: http://www.firstinspires.org/robotics/frc/blog/2017-first-choice-round-1-delay-tweak
FIRST Choice Round 1: Slight Delay & a Tweak
Written by the FIRST Robotics Competition Kit of Parts Team.


Internal issues caused a delay in part assignment, and as a result, FIRST Choice Round 1 results won’t be shared with teams until Friday, 12/9. Additionally, we’re moving the opening of FIRST Choice “regular” ordering until 12/13 (starting at Noon, Eastern Time). We’ll update FIRST and AndyMark sites where these dates are referenced.

Also, we meant to present the 1.94 in. (http://firstchoicebyandymark.com/fc17-009) and 2.55 in. (http://firstchoicebyandymark.com/fc17-010) spacers as packs of eight, not singles. We’re fixing that: the credit value will stay at five, the website will be updated, and the shipments will be kits of eight.

Thank you for your understanding, and please accept our apologies for the delay and the change in product details.

Not sure if this was appropriate for the other FIRST Choice thread, but made a separate thread anyway, if not just to alert people.

[marshall]

Posted on the FRC Blog, 12/08/16: http://www.firstinspires.org/robotics/frc/blog/2017-first-choice-round-1-delay-tweak

Not sure if this was appropriate for the other FIRST Choice thread, but made a separate thread anyway, if not just to alert people.

I'm curious if the delay was caused by teams trying to max out credits or items in their list because that would be really funny.

[Billfred]

I'm curious if the delay was caused by teams trying to max out credits or items in their list because that would be really funny.

No.

(PS: You missed the Jerry Budd Prize by two items.)

[Ed Sparks]

Man ........ I was pumped coming into work today and expecting good news on our FC wish list. Now I have that same feeling I had as a kid when I realized that Santa wasn't coming again this year.

I'll get over it tomorrow I'm sure ......

[marshall]

No.

(PS: You missed the Jerry Budd Prize by two items.)

UGH... I wish you hadn't told me that. I knew it was going to be close...

Also, I won't confess to having used a script to do it! NEVER! I'm guessing I missed something in the manual portion that I did. :(

[Bkeeneykid]

No.

(PS: You missed the Jerry Budd Prize by two items.)

Well, we've established that it's not at least one thing. Care to share any more info on what went wrong. Did the registration server crash FIRST Choice this time?

[frcguy]

No.



(PS: You missed the Jerry Budd Prize by two items.)


Jerry Budd Prize?

(If this is a joke from FUN, I missed most of that episode)

[Nuttyman54]

Jerry Budd Prize?

(If this is a joke from FUN, I missed most of that episode)

It was also on the Behind the Lines epsiode. Jerry Budd (from AndyMark) offered to pay $20 of the shipping charges for the team that submitted the priority list with the most items on it.

I believe Kate Pilotte offered to match him on the FUN episode, but I can't confirm.

[Billfred]

Jerry Budd Prize?

(If this is a joke from FUN, I missed most of that episode)

Jerry put up $20 towards shipping to the team that put the most items on their list. Kate Pilotte then put up $20 for the team with the most line items on their list. Marshall missed out on both by thaaaaaaaaaaat much.

[marshall]

Marshall missed out on both by thaaaaaaaaaaat much.

Jeez! Rub it in! I came up a couple items short on purpose just to prove I could do it. I just didn't want to deprive Jerry of $20. ;)

[Lil' Lavery]

Now I wish I had watched that episode. I would have gone in and spent more than $20 worth of my manhours to get $20 off shipping by adding every item I could. :rolleyes:

[yarden.saa]

There was a problem with Israel teams

[Bkeeneykid]

There was a problem with Israel teams

Hmm, Interesting. What specifically was the issue with paying?

[yarden.saa]

Hmm, Interesting. What specifically was the issue with paying?

Usually Israel teams pays to FIRST Israel and then FIRST Israel pays to USFIRST for registration. Probably there was a delay in the transaction between FIRST Israel and USFIRST or another problem in changing the status of the teams from unpaid to paid...

[Tyler Olds]

Now I wish I had watched that episode. I would have gone in and spent more than $20 worth of my manhours to get $20 off shipping by adding every item I could. :rolleyes:

Well since we are apparently plugging: Here's where Jerry talks about the $20 and Kate adds on. (https://youtu.be/yO1CN3VZoyI?t=1786)

https://youtu.be/yO1CN3VZoyI?t=1786

[blackwood]

Somehow I missed notification about FIRST Choice this year, but from what I'm seeing on the list of things available, I don't think I missed much. Although Green Shaft collars are kind of cool. :-)

Hopefully I won't miss Round 2 and I'll see something worth getting.

[billbo911]

Somehow I missed notification about FIRST Choice this year, but from what I'm seeing on the list of things available, I don't think I missed much. Although Green Shaft collars are kind of cool. :-)

Hopefully I won't miss Round 2 and I'll see something worth getting.

We missed round 1 last year. Round 2 turned out to be excellent for us. We ended up receiving our top pick, 2 ADIS16448 (http://firstchoicebyandymark.com/fc17-007) IMU's. Now I am not saying you get a boost by missing round 1, it just worked that way for us.

Missing round 1 is not a big issue.

[MARS_James]

I am pleasantly surprised that we got all of our top priority items.

[frcguy]

We missed round 1 last year. Round 2 turned out to be excellent for us. We ended up receiving our top pick, 2 ADIS16448 (http://firstchoicebyandymark.com/fc17-007) IMU's. Now I am not saying you get a boost by missing round 1, it just worked that way for us.

Missing round 1 is not a big issue.

Hey, you can't get much worse than us last year - we didn't even know priority lists were a thing so we didn't do either round!

[MooreteP]

So...... How do I find out what we got?

I have not received an email and a check of our AndyMark account shows that all of our credits were used.

[Bryce Clegg]

So...... How do I find out what we got?

I have not received an email and a check of our AndyMark account shows that all of our credits were used.

Go to my account, click on orders, and details for the latest order.

[MooreteP]

Thank you.

I saw the order, but it was dated 11/15/16.

All better now.

Every item we requested in order.

[billbo911]

Got 5 of our top 6. We only missed on CIM motors. Totally happy with that!

[Lil' Lavery]

We made out with all our top choices. Talon SRX, Power Distribution Board, Voltage Regulator Module, NavX Micro, and NVidia Jetson TX1. Pretty pleased with our haul.